The National Institution for Clinical Excellence (NICE) produces clinical guidelines and also technical appraisals, many of which have reference to the practice of Nuclear Medicine. To visit the NICE website click here.
Dr Arum Parthipun, Royal Free is the BNMS lead on NICE consultations. If you have any questions relevant to BNMS engagement with NICE consultations please contact Dr Parthipun here NICE@bnms.org.uk
The BNMS are stakeholders in NICE guidelines which contain nuclear medicine recommendations. Below are the consultations that the BNMS have been and currently involved in:
Acute Coronary Syndromes
Acute Kidney injury: prevention, detection and management
Acute kidney injury update quality standard
Acute respiratory infection in over 16s: initial assessment and management, including using virtual wards (QS210)
Advanced breast cancer:diagnosis and treatment
Atrial fibrillation: management
Babies, children and young people's experience of healthcare
Barrett's oesophagus and stage 1 oesophageal adenocarcinoma: monitoring and management
Barrett's Oesophagus - ablative therapy
Brain Tumours
Breast Cancer (Advanced)
Breast Cancer (Early) Trastuzumab
Caesarean section
Cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract
Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification
Cardiovascular disease prevention: cholesterol treatment target (secondary prevention)
Chest pain of recent onset: assessment and diagnosis
Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management (update)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in over 16s: diagnosis and management
Cirrhosis in over 16s: assessment and management
Crohn's Disease
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal Cancer Quality Standard
Colorectal Cancer Guideline
Cancer services for children and young people
Chronic heart failure in adults
Chronic heart failure in adults - diagnosis and management
Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management - Pharmacological treatment of chronic heart failure
Chronic fatigue syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis
Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management
Coeliac disease in adults
Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers
Dementia (update 2019)
Diabetes type II update
Diabetic Foot Problems: inpatient management
Diagnostic Services
Disabled children and young people up to 25 with severe complex needs: integrated service delivery and organisation across health, social care and education
Dyspepsia
Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and management
Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment
Emergency and acute medical care in over 16s
Epilepsy the diagnosis and management of epilepsy in children and adults
Epilepsies in children, young people and adults
Epilepsies in children, young people and adults (update)
Epilepsy Update
Everolimus and sunitinib for treating unresectable or metastatic neuroendocrine tumours in people with progressive disease
Gastro-oesophageal reflux in children
Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (unresectable, somatostatin receptor-positive) - lutetium-177 dotatate
Haematological cancers
Head and Neck Cancer
Heart valve disease presenting in adults: investigation and management
Hip Fracture
Hip Fracture: Management
Hip Fracture Quality Standard
Hypertension
Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management (update)
Hyperparathyroidism (primary): diagnosis, assessment and initial management
Improving outcomes for people with sarcoma
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Joint replacement (primary): hip, knee and shoulder
Learning disabilities
Liver Disease
Low back pain
Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men
Lung Cancer: diagnosis and management
Lung Cancer in adults
Melanoma: assessment and management
Metastatic spinal cord compression
Metastatic malignant disease of unknown primary origin
MI:Secondary prevention
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Neutropenic Sepsis
Oesophago-gastric cancer: assessment and management in adults
Osteoarthritis: care and management
Osteoarthritis in Adults
Osteoarthritis in over 16s: diagnosis and management
Osteoporosis fragility fracture
Parkinson's disease in adults
Patient experience in adult NHS services (QS15)
Prostate Cancer
Psychosis and Schizophrenia in adults
Renal and ureteric stones: assessment and management
Renal and ureteric stones (QS 2020) (QS195)
Renal replacement therapy and conservative management
Rheumatoid arthritis in adults
Rheumatoid arthritis in over 16s
Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality Standard
Sarcoma
Schizophrenia
Sedation in infants, Children and Young People
SeHCAT (tauroselcholic [75 selenium] acid) for diagnosing bile acid diarrhoea
Selective internal radiation therapies for treating hepatocellular carcinoma - March 2021
Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for Colorectal Metastases in the Liver
Selective Internal Radiation Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Selective internal radiation therapy for neuroendocrine tumours that have metastasised to the liver
Service user experience in adult mental health services (QS14)
Skin Cancer
Skin cancer (QS130)
Skin tumours including melanoma
Spinal metastases and metastatic spinal cord compression
Stable Angina
Stable Angina Quality Standard
Stroke
Surgical site infection
Suspected Cancer
Suspected acute respiratory infection in over 16s: assessment at first presentation and initial management
Thyroid cancer: assessment and management
Thyroid disease
Transition from children’s to adults’ services
Type 2 diabetes in adults: management
Ulcerative Colitis
Unstable angina and NSTEMI
Urinary tract infections in adults update quality standard
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men
Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management
Urinary tract infection (recurrent): antimicrobial prescribing
Upper GI Bleeding
Venous thromboembolism in adults
Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing (2019)
Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing (2023)
When to suspect child maltreatment
Ovarian Cancer
Oesophago-gastric cancer
Parkinson's Disease
Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis
Prostate Cancer
Referral for suspected Cancer
Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing